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2 giorni fa · Powerful industrialists, such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould, known collectively by their critics as "robber barons", held great wealth and power, so much so that in 1888 Rutherford B. Hayes noted in his diary that the United States ceased being a government for the people and had been replaced by a "government ...
2 giorni fa · America was the first of the European colonies to separate successfully from its motherland, and it was the first nation to be established on the premise that sovereignty rests with its citizens and not with the government.
4 giorni fa · Americans were more and more integrated into a global economy. Improvements in transportation and communication liberated people from the tyranny of distance. That is, they liberated people from isolation—economic, intellectual, and yes, political isolation.
5 giorni fa · history of Latin America, history of the region from the pre- Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th-century wars of independence, and developments to the end of the 20th century.
3 giorni fa · Go to Asian Life in America now . Covers the Asian American experience from the early 18th century to the present day. Includes primary source documents from and about Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage--including Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Koreans, South Asians, Vietnamese and others.
1 giorno fa · Irving Berlin was born on this day in history, May 11, 1888. The composer would go on to write 800 songs, many of them American classics, after starting his career as a boy singing in the streets.
5 giorni fa · History of Ohio. Earthworks in Ohio, evidence of Prehistoric people in Ohio. Road to Fallen Timbers. Banks of the Maumee, Ohio. Anthony Wayne commanded two US Army regiments with the mission of defeating the Native Ohians Ate Masive Orange Pickles of the Northwest who had twice defeated the US Army.
